The Arizona sentinel., 1887-04-30
ALL SORTS OF SILKS.
The Favorlte Weaves and Colors for General Spring and Summer Wear.


 The FavorIte weaves and CoIors for General Spring and Summer Wear.
 When one gets peep at the sample books of silks at a leading establish ment the temptationis is great to describe each and every style; but the limits of time and space are memorable, and so choice must be made of only special few.
 Faille Franchise continues to be the favorite weave for silks; and deserved ly, for it combines softness and plia- bility with a richness of effect, and, from the special manner of weaving, a durability, that are not possessed by any other style. This weave forms the foundation for many of the novel and beautiful effects in the new silks. not however, to the exclusion of satin, gros grain, and twilled weave similar to surah or satin merveilleuX.
 The popular fancy for stripes and plaids is prominent in all the novelties in silks; and plush effects, in both frise and coupe, abound, sometimes used separately, sometimes together. A dis tinctive sample of the latter class has block plaids two inches square. all ternately of cut and uncut plush, separated by bayadere stripes of two or three threads in faille weave, and perpendicular stripes of the same width but of a contrasting color of plush. The combinations of color in this style are varied; one is of beige and beau- tiful shade of dark blue, the separating lines of old-gold. The colors are dis posed in perpendicular stripes, so that the color effect is of stripes, while the plaid effect is imparted by the weaving coupe and frise, which occurs ai- ternately every two inches, but in the same line all across the material. This would be used for a panel, front breadth, or even the entire skirt in com bination with either blue or beige silk or fine camels'-hair cashmere.
 Another striking sample has, on a heliotrope satin ground, two plush stripes, each five inches wide, formed of narrow stripes in old-gold, dark red, bronze-green and vieiLLe rose, of differ ent widths and repeated in different TO- tation, and woven about three inches from the selvedges,. Down the middle of the width, the satin surface is striped with single threads of chenille in each of the colors in the plush stripes, having the frise weave at inter- vals; and there are bayadere stripes of satin, repeating the colors of the che nile, which form plaids. This could be used in combination with heliotrope, or with any one of the colors in the plush, the dark for handsome visiting costumes, and the light for reception and carriage use.
 Another style has faille ground in dark shade of heliotrope that dis plays admirably novel effect in beige colored cut plush, which is in crosswise and lengthwise stripes forming plaids, the plush not solid, but woven diagon- ally in chenille-like threads. Still an- other design is in three colors and has uncut plush of two lengths on a surah ground; and yet another has stripes at least three inches wide of golden brown armure, alternating with stripes of equal width formed of tiny checks of beige-colored frise on a scarlet satin ground. In fact, the combinations and variation of the different weaves, in stripes and plaids of various sizes and widths is almost endleSs
 The new colors include heliotrope in eight or ten shades; plum, which is allied to heliotrope but with tinge of red; bronze with green shadings; light browns, and the whole range of wood tints; beige and its kindred light tints; and gray, from the palest French gray to the dark blue-gray known as Rus sian gray.
 Moire Franchise in good qualities is in demand in black and all fashionable colors for street wear, to be used in combination with silk or fine woolen fabrics. Moire Franchise, it will be remembered, has the watered effect in stripes, rather than the all-over ar engagement familiar in moire antique, but the ripples are quite as large as in the latter. A special novelty, in black, has stripes of moire Francaise at least seven or eight inches wide alternating with satin stripes of the same width; there is moire stripe down the middle of the width. .-DemoreSt' 8 Monthly.